We performed a comparison between Devolutions Remote Desktop Manager and Microsoft Remote Desktop Services based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Remote Access solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Documentation per entry, good for device configs or important/special instructions."
""Inherited" function for credentials - Configure the desired credential at one (top) location, and use the Inherited function on all sub-connections that should use this credential."
"By integrating all our connections previously spread across multiple locations, a lot of time has been saved."
"It really helps to have all the data already pre-entered and all I have to do is enter the password."
"Devolutions's team is constantly making improvements to their products. If you submit a feature request, they are usually quick to implement it."
"With the integrated VPN providers you are able to link the VPN entry directly to the session or entire folders, so you no longer have to configure the VPN manually on the machine."
"The ability to have all the connection information in one location saves so much time from trying to manage the same information across different applications."
"Allows us to configure limited access to resources with the security-based role feature (which we use for trainees and new employees)."
"It's scalable enough for our needs and very reliable."
"Everything is really good and it works well."
"The most valuable features are availability and security."
"I like the way it can assess our system."
"We use it to connect to the legacy system."
"It's simple to set up."
"The performance meets our requirements and the stability is good."
"It's simple and easy to use."
"The only complaint I have heard is there are too many updates. Each time there is an update (the app prompts to upgrade), it can be time consuming, especially when sometimes there are multiple updates per week."
"Sometimes the manual inventory of some entries hangs, and RDM must be closed via task manager."
"There are always bugs to squash, beyond that, it is really kind of difficult for new users to discover and use many of the features due to the bewildering array of choices and ways to do things."
"If there was a way to streamline the process, it would make it nice."
"Maybe some clipboard functions could be added along with integration of different software."
"On complex setups, I actually needed to reach out to support to get it working correctly."
"The RDM client (.NET issue, actually) can stall or lock up while it clears communication threads to the server."
"Security roles could be improved, especially by enabling renaming of a role."
"We'd like, in the future, if it would work with Linux or Unix-based operating systems or even Mac."
"The reliability of the solution could improve."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is its security and simple configuration."
"The training profiles could be better."
"Microsoft Remote Desktop Services could improve by allowing the sharing of the office application. For example, the ability to replace a PC when something is wrong."
"It could be more user-friendly."
"There have been some network issues in the solution. So, when we used to connect it, the solution suddenly got disconnected. So the network part needs to be improved."
"We face frequent disconnections."
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Devolutions Remote Desktop Manager is ranked 26th in Remote Access while Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is ranked 2nd in Remote Access with 76 reviews. Devolutions Remote Desktop Manager is rated 9.8, while Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Devolutions Remote Desktop Manager writes "Best remote connection manager you can use today". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Remote Desktop Services writes "Easy to set up and reliable, but needs an additional control panel". Devolutions Remote Desktop Manager is most compared with TeamViewer, BeyondTrust Remote Support and VNC Connect, whereas Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is most compared with TeamViewer, VMware Horizon, Citrix Workspace, VMware Workstation and Splashtop Remote Support. See our Devolutions Remote Desktop Manager vs. Microsoft Remote Desktop Services report.
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